Cici Segura was born Cecilia Marie Segura Gonzalez in the city of San Gabriel.  She studied art in private schools and in East Los Angeles College.  She has worked in London and in Los Angeles as an in house fashion designer and has apprenticed in New York with artist Dale Maix. 

 Segura’s experience in the commercial world has not stopped her from painting, her true strength and passion.  This is where she feels in complete control. In June 2003 ArtScene wrote: “… Cici Gonzalez (Segura) … charters fresh territory in the large terrain separating narrative figuration and gravity-free abstraction. Time and space are casual elements, not fixations… The ability to try new things after one is informed is a hallmark of artistic wisdom this painter has reached and is excelling beyond.”

 Cici Segura is fearless and relentless with the elements she paints allowing them to dance, interact and flint with the space, after captured on canvas they shout “I survived, witness my existence on your canvas.”  Her artwork has also been exhibited in Virgins & Madonnas (DADA, LA, 1996) , Cool Art ’98 (Armand Hammer Museum of Art, LA, 1998), El Sueño de la Diosa (Self Help Graphics, LA,1998), Cuarteto de Luna (Tropico de Nopal, LA, 2003), and Revolution/Evolution II (Self Help Graphics, LA, 2003) among others.

 Oscar Sanabria is a new comer to the local art scene.  Born in Queens, New York of Guatemalan descendents, he moved to Los Angeles with his family early in his childhood.  Growing up in the Pico-Union district of Los Angeles he found refuge in painting, and eventually graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001.

 Sanabria challenges the notions of established icons and themes associated with Latin art. His restless quest for harmony evokes a precarious balance between rationality and spontaneity in his use of architectural elements as a reoccurring theme for his paintings.  Reflecting on the continued flux of these forms, he compares them with an individual’s identity, having something universal and eternal, yet withstanding the ever-changing nature of the world.  His artwork has been exhibited in Corazones de Aztlan (Self Help Graphics, LA, 2004), Tacticas y Estrategias (Octovia’s Haze, San Francisco, 2002), Spring Show (San Francisco Art Institute, SF, 2001), Mail Your Love to Osaka (Osaka, Japan, 1999), and Contemporary ’99 (Period Gallery, Omaha, NE, 1999) among others.